A single 21-year old study might disagree with what I clearly said was my anecdotal experience. But it might not. The article doesn’t explain when the obesity measurement was made; if it was made after marriage, there is evidence suggesting that married men are more likely to become obese than men of the same age who…

Seriously, I really have to know where this comes from. This argument comes up every time a story notes that men are judged/ridiculed for their physical characteristics too, when someone inevitably points to TV or movies as proof that this is not so.

Who tended to mock them for their out-of-shapeness and constantly sexually rejected them.

Why didn’t my plastic surgeon tell me about that??!

21 Jump Street is not supposed to be a comedy! It’s supposed to be a teenage crime melodrama escapist fantasy. Kids today, ugh.

Nope, it’s the $98 part.

You’re really missing the point—you do not know what his motive is. What a “standard tactic” is is irrelevant. It’s equally possible that he just wants primary custody because he wants primary custody. The idea that it can only be some ulterior financial motive is silly, and that you, an internet poster whose…

I’m familiar with the legal procedure, and while I’ve never practiced family law specifically I did learn enough of it to pass two bar exams. A “complaint” is something a little different in legal terms; here, the judge doesn’t describe the procedural history, but based on her ruling it seems clear that custody had…

“But why do women have to keep adding on this asterisk? Why must we keep assuring men that being equal to them is good for everybody?”

Sure; I am quite able to judge Woody Allen movies as mediocre and overrated separately from his personal issues.

Many colleges have a policy to prefer spouse hires. I’ve found it vaguely unfair in a theoretical way, but when I finish my PhD I’ll probably have stronger feelings about it.

I agree with some of what Rosin says but not all:

Well, up to you, but if you want to screw around with them can always talk to the EEOC anyway. They might investigate, and even if they don’t ultimately do anything they can freak out the owner and make it a little easier for the next non-white waitress who works there.

You should contact the EEOC, unless you waived that right in a severance agreement.

“.as long as the amount of money she wants to make in life as around %70 of what men in her field make for the same work.”

“But the “supposed pay gap” does not enter when men get married and/or have children. “

I fudge the other way (I think it was 10 almonds but let’s put it the other way). I am scrupulously honest, which sometimes backfires (oh yay, I’m at 4,000 calories today, that will help my self-esteem).

See see my reply to anacanapana referencing the transcript; I never said it was the deciding factor, just that when you are DEFINING rights you can’t escape having to look at history.

No, it’s not “irrelevant” at all. It’s actually one of the threshold questions that the Court is debating—what does or does not constitute marriage, and it is in a lot of ways a historical question. And It’s a question that both sides have discussed. Whatever the flaws of the anti-gay-marriage side, they’re not…

I’ve expressed that I think their belief is immoral and legally wrong and it will fail. There’s no need to rewrite history or turn their position into just incomprehensible lunacy; they have a position. Just because you and I don’t agree with it doesn’t turn it into nothing.